Display device.



E. R. PHELPS. DISPLAY DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JAIL15, 1910.

Patented Mar. 8, 1910.

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character. which is simple 111 t Fig. 3 represents a tray en'iployed Men with the stand. is an enter n'rrsn i i W e ran ERAS'IUS R. PHELPS, OF CHIGAGQ, ILLINGIS, ASSIGNDR TO C'rRA'SZ L'f h.

PANY. OF NEW? YGR-K, '21. A CCRPGRATION OF NEW? DISPLAY DEVICE.-

To all wiz'o'm it may concern:

Be it known that I, Emsr'os l. Pnsnrs, a citizen of the United States of America, rcsiding at Chicago, in the county of Cool;

and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing This invention relates to display devices adapted to display goods for sale. and has especial reference to that class of display devices in which a light portable display stand is provided which is adapted to be up on a counter or in a shop Windougor in any other suitable place, and prt'wvided with means for supporting and displ ing goods.

The object of this invention is to pr vide an improved portable display stand of this nstruction ion and may he reatlilv set up in he pla t goods or so es of goods.

Other objects an. ath .nta s vention will appear in the con lowingspecification.

In the aecotnpanyine drawings, is a front View in perspective d1 play stand constructed in accortlai'tce with this intention. Fig. is a s de view thereof.

in connecdetail vienmo'f one of the sup giorts for tray. i v

In carrying out the invention, the device is formed from a sheet of suitable flexible material, such as stiff flexible cardhoart. or thin, flexible metal, and has a base portion 1 in the form of a panel with a portion upwardly-extending from the base portion and out out in the form of the body head and arms of a. human being, the reference 1111-- meral 2 indicating the body portion and the numerzl indicating the arms of the human figure. Said arms consist of flatfiexilole strips of material cut. away from the main portion of the blank from which the device is formed and leaving space between each strip or arm 3 and the main body or portion of the blank.

4 indicates a tray which is adapted to support goods or samples of goods, as, for ex'- ample, one or more howls 5 which are era: ployed to contain samples of goods, said tray 1 being preferably dctachaloly eonnected with the main body portion of the display are '1. T

across and bear againstthe body not The rcarwardl er human figure and tlstzichalol thereto and to the hand porti n, end of an arm 3 in our sttitso 1 rm I n V .t he may 4 is termed at rear elongated cutaway portion 7 ha ends rear. at'rllyptejecting no? cut-away portion 1" being adapted to atabout the wai t one, shown project. through a slot 1') in the main body portion 2 "old slots 9 of, a Width to permit a ho ren movement. of the .11 l'tet-ein, for s t edge of the tray t is to cut-away should i into a slot each mea the twi s a being: material and bent fora shown in ll pressed ar' ii the edges by means oi the shoal ttaf' hold the tray soet'tt'cly J The t evice hereinbrtore in of any suitable height and Wlt'l placed in an upr ght p i'ea rwa ally-inclined may he'prtwit'led for sa in said upright. inclined positita. ample, a foldahle bra ce l2 *ivh'v part of the main nitiation :t m stand'and of the saine material and ada ted to be extended, as shown in EFig. 2, to support the. stand in an inclined p0: tion, or to be folded up against the same when not. in

use. I

In order that the tray 4- inay in a horizontal position to support the goods \vl the stand is located at inelina'the pos1- 101] tion notched hands of the 8 as to brin the tray into a horizontal 7 position, the slots) in the edges of the body portion permitting the tray to assume such position.

It is to he understood that my disgilay do vice is susceptible of being easily l tay or receptacle containing a package food, or the like. The shipping of the device in a flat or lniock-donn condition does not i Weaken or injure the same and when the devices reach their destination they can he easily mounted, folded o asscmhled for producing an ope 'ahlc tlispla device, prel'- erably to be used as a window display device. although my derives are snsceptihie ot being used in any place in which a display play stand in. an upright position.

device of this type is desired.

What 1 claim as my invention isz 1. A display stand of the cha 'acter descril'icd. consisting of a base portion in the form of a panel, an upper portion extending upward from the lJilH). portion and harin tlcxihlc arms extending from a point adja-,

cent to its upper end imn'nn'ardl and 'i' rn'ardly, and a tray supported hy the. toner portion of said upn'arillpprojceting portion 1 and by the lower ends ot said flexible arms.

2. A display stand. ot the character described jttn'med from a sheet ol ttexihle ma terial having a base portion in the form ot a panel, an upper portion extending from tne upper end of said ljiase portion in the term of a human being with flexible arms extending from the upper portion of the upper end of said main portion and inclined downwardly and forwardly and having ends in base portion. and an upper portion in the f shape of a human figure with 'tlexihlcton.

n'a'rdly-extending, inclined arms having a notch in each hand of said arm, the main body of the tip'nre having notches in its side edges, a. detachable tray having a recessed, slmnidered re: r edge engaging the body portion of the ignite. and said notches thereiin slmuldered it'ront; ciiirncr portions engaging the notches in the hands of said extended arms, and means for supporting'said dis- GU11 I" it"crined of sheet nnitierial, consisting" of a hzse portion in the form ot. a panel and an upper' 'iortmn entendin; from the upper end of said hasc portion in the form of a hun'i-an lining with tlexihlc arms having notched hands and said ligurc ltitVlllfj' notches in its side edges, a detachable shouldered tray engaen'lg said notches in the side edges ol' the figure and also the notches in the hands of the .tlexihlc arms, held under tension. in a lot-wardty-extended position, and a i'otdingy support: at. the rear oi the hase ot the display and.

it. A. lznoclc-don'n or l oldahlc displayv dc rice oi": the class descrihed, conun'isiue' a the shape of hands, and a tray liniratjed at the 3 lower end of said upper end portion and. notaehahly engaged therewith and with hands.

'3. It display stand oi the chaaeter descriheth consisting of a base portion in the form of a panel, an upper part in the Form said of a portion of a human heme. havirur Elexihle for rardlyhent arms and said upper portion having notches in its sides, said arms luwing notches in the ends thereo'l and a tray detachahly engaging said body portion and said hands.

t. A display stand oi the character dcscribed formed from sheet ma tcrial havin hody or prin'iary portion with means for noronillr retaining the same in an upright position "iid body provided with nmvahle support in means ca pahle of lazing; folded in itineinent with the laid or against the same and also heii'i g' c: pahle o'l proiecting from the hody to Fillpi'nlli a shell or tray-like means and a shell? or tray-litre means not mallv retained in an opcrahle position upon said hody in said shell? or tray-supporting neansf in testimony whereof I hereunto ailix in}; signature i: presence of two witnesses.

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